AFTER years declining membership, Nuclear Disarmament has taken off again.
Memories are
streets of West London, numbering hundred thousand as the Aldermaston marchers turned down Whitehall and swung into Trafalgar Square.
The November 1979 thạt NATO was sending Bri tain a batch of Cruise missles. and Knowing that the horrific Polaris is going to percolacca Dy the more horrific Trident the deadly and destructive - nuclear weapon known roused people into action, once again.
As wey were wakered from a complacent slumber, ordinary have cotnüclear holocaușt is peterrumm that nilar or me estabish.
admited on February 1980:
of Cruise missiles shall be ihe snail . be number one.
The amented, London Evenir vews, on 20 August 1980 cynically reassured only on wolfe survive nuclear war. It neglected to. mention that 45m of us will die!
Admit Office officials blandly admit that there is no way a national shelter can oroviuca.
Lörd Belstead IS In arised any idea of pro Civil Defence for the population, by sayll? Would 'cost billions • and and pounds.
Hopes that a nuclear war horrible to template and that Castanse cover sad the mary win trawback are being shattered whenever the top brass open general Alexander Haig, when he was Supreme Allied Commanei Io NAIU, said: weapons must employed. convey decisive escalation of suffinemy that he should make political ECISION Ccast allack allu Haig is, not just soldier who will be in check by astute politicians. He is the of relative obscurity, and the Campaign for revived of those Easter Mondays în the late '50s and early '60s when thousands of people streamed through the over a has just promoted to the US same Haig whom Secretary of State!
Britain, Thatcher's: fingers are hovering over the mes. tenorter *doomsday and sue alread DeCI through the steps she would have to take to launch a Polaris missile strike...". Stock With the nuclear stock piling reaching unprécedented heights, the bellicose threats of I natchers, and Reagans get louder are cne arce or civil retence. necomec more obvious, so the fear of nuclear wonder CND has tremendous growth in the last vear Jalual of alvidua mCmOCISHID 2.0WV ene December it nad topped the 11,000 mark. Local groups sprouted dormant branches have been revived; new ones lave beel Dorm CND estimate. local membership. which is growing faster than national andid 22, mo win sho sign membership, or ll evening our yel.
was people began to react to the But the effects of have reverberated throughout the Party took Juic to the the Labour Despite rain thunder, 25;000 people marCued the manc determination of the marchers MF aker, called unilateralism said: proud it', *This governmént Lunching an all-out attack on working people it is driving us closer Lo•War • speakers con tented themselves pious calls for world peace MAR.
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